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Berger to Succeed Holton at Scholastic
Lisa Holton, who has served as president of Scholastic's trade and book fair groups since May 2005, is leaving the company to form a new media venture. Ellie Berger has been named president of the trade group.
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Borders Beta Redesign Up for Customer Feedback
After more than a month of quiet beta tests—and just days after B&N unveiled a redesign of its site—Borders is ready to give its new e-commerce site a test run for consumers.
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Commercial Frontlist, His Own Backlist
What's a midlist author to do when his publisher puts his backlist out of print? In the case of mystery writer Archer Mayor, you take matters into your own hands, literally. While Chat, his 18th book in the Joe Gunther series, is set to come out on schedule from Grand Central Publishing later this month, Mayor will be reissuing the first 12 books in the series as trade paperbacks under his own ...
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Consortium Making Progress, But More Needed
Last week’s announcement that Seven Stories Press, one of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution’s largest and most important clients, had agreed to a long-term extension suggested that the worst of the transition issues involving the distributor’s integration into the Perseus Books Group—including the move of warehousing and some back-office operations to Jackson, Tenn.
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People: Baron to Go Exclusive for Knopf; Nichols to Collins; Barber to Grove/Atlantic
Carole Baron has formalized her relationship with Knopf, agreeing to acquire books for the Random House division exclusively. Also on the staffing front, Bruce Nichols has been named v-p and publisher of HarperCollins' Collins division.
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BookWorld Closes, AtlasBooks Steps Up
Small press distributor BookWorld closed its doors Friday, with little warning to its clients. AtlasBooks, which had been in discussions about buying the company, has taken possession of most of the books and hopes to take on many of BookWorld's clients.
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Borders Shareholders Want Board Seat
Several large shareholders have asked Borders to name Glenn Tongue to the retailer's board, asserting that "significant shareholders" deserve some board representation.
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Hyperion to Move Downtown
Early next year Hyperion will move from its offices 66th Street in New York City back to its previous location on Fifth Avenue. The shift will follow the move of Disney Publishing Worldwide to from NYC to White Plains, N.Y.
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Galassi Takes Debut for FSG
Farrar, Straus & Giroux head Jonathan Galassi has acquired U.S. rights to a debut novel that could be one of the bigger books at Frankfurt next week. The author is 31-year-old C.E. Morgan, and the book's working title is All the Living. After a submission September 20 to a selected group of editors, last Monday morning Trident's Ellen Levine had several offers on the table, eventually accep...
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Southie Memoir Comes Home
In recent years, no neighborhood in Boston has generated as much book interest as Southie—both tell-alls of street soldiers for crime boss/FBI informant Whitey Bulger, charged with killing 19 people, and analyses of him and his brother Billy, former president of the Massachusetts State Senate and the University of Massachusetts system.
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Selleck and Eulau Up at S&S, Norton to Depart
Incoming S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy has promoted Michael Selleck and Dennis Eulau to top spots at the company, and Larry Norton, president of the sales and distribution division will leave the company at the end of the year. Selleck will assume most of Norton's duties.
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Court Approves Perseus Bid for PGW Name, B&T Payment to AMS
Perseus Books Group's offer to acquire the PGW name and office leases in Berkeley and New York was approved this morning by the bankruptcy court judge. The court also signed off on the settlement between Baker & Taylor and AMS over B&T's final payment to AMS.
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Nextbook Gets Virtual With B&N
Adding to its new online bookclub offerings, Barnes & Noble has teamed with Nextbook to create a Jewish-themed group.
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HarperCollins Launches Site for Author Web Pages
In an effort to make more appealing and easier-to-maintain author Web sites, HarperCollins has established a pilot site called AuthorAssistant that allows authors to easily create, and control, their own Web page.
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Borders Sells U.K. Group to Equity Firm
Borders Group has sold its U.K. book division to Risk Capital Partners for £10 million in cash, a stake in the new company and incentives which could bring another£10 million. The sale is the first to be completed as part of the retailer's strategy to divest most of its international holdings.
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Self-Pub Pickup
Indie Monkfish Book Publishing of Rhinebeck, N.Y., publisher of science, spiritual and metaphysical titles, celebrated its fifth anniversary last month. A milestone, for sure, but six months before, when publisher Paul Cohen and his partner, Georgia Dent, who handles design and publicity for the press, entertained ways to generate more revenue, the idea of self-publishing came up.
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Good Gains for Holtzbrinck
Total revenue at Germany's privately held Holtzbrinck rose 7.5% in 2006, to 2.24 billion euros ($3 billion), and operating EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) increased 10.0%, to 206.6 million euros ($275 million). Sales in the consumer book group—which in the U.
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Wisconsin Bookstore Offers Retreat
Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops has begun promoting its second Reader's Retreat. Last year's first event drew 100 people, and the store expects as many as 225 readers to attend this year's, which is being held in conjunction with Penguin.
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Gomez Named to Online Spot at Penguin
Penguin Group USA lured away Holtzbrinck Internet marketing guru Jeff Gomez to head its online consumer sales and marketing effort.
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B&N Produces Music CDs for Exclusive Sale
Barnes & Noble is taking a page from Starbucks' Hear Music playbook as it ventures into the music industry this week by co-producing a pair of CD music compilations that will be sold exclusively at B&N stores and online. The bookseller’s first two CD releases (on the new label bigHelium Records) are Sunday Music 1 and Sunday Music 2.
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